Line-casting machine.



G. D. HARTLEY.

LINE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4, 1910.

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G. D. HARTLEY. LINE CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4, 1910.

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ATTORNEY GEORGE DONNINCT HARTLEY, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A SIGNQR T6 MERGEEL TI-IALER LINOTYE'E COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LINE-CASTING MACHINE.

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Application filed January 4, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gmnon Downnve l'lnn'rnnv, of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Li'ne tlasting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to a line casting machine of the general character represented in Letters Patent of the United States No. 436,532, wherein circulating type matrices, carried in a channeled magazine, are released individually by finger-keys in the order in which their characters are to appear in print, assembled temporarily in line-and the composed lines presented momentarily to the face of a mold, where they form type characters in relief on the edge of a slug cast therein; after which the com posed line is carried to the distributing mechanism by which the individual matrices are returned to the magazine channels from which they were released.

The object of my invention is to adapt one distributer mechanism to deliver matrices at the will of the operator to one set of magazine channels or to another set of intermediate or intervening channels.

To this end it consists in combining with a magazine having its alternate channels adapted. to receive matrices of one font, and

the intermediate or intervening channels adapted to receive matrices of another set or font, a single distributer and a series of flexible guide plates located between the dis tributer and the magazine, their upper ends being fixed, while their lower ends, movable laterally, are connected. so that they may be shifted in series to the right or left. These plates serve to direct the matrices into one series of channels or the other as required, and they afford smooth, continuous passages through. which the matrices may descend without obstruction and without changing their path, directly to the magazine.

The details of the magazine and the details of the distributer are foreign to my invention, and may be modified at will. For purposes of illustration I have shown my improvement in connection with the cooperating parts of a machine of the commercial Mergenthaler type such as described in the patent before mentioned.

it is to be understood that the parts of the machine not shown may be of any ordinary Specification of Letters Fatent.

Patented. $13M. 5, 191%. Serial No. 538.366.

or suitable construction, and that the parts shown may be varied within the range of mechanical skill, provided their mode of action is retained.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a linotype machine, showing the magazine, the keyboard, the distributer and adjacent parts of the machine, with my improvement incorporated therein. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the connections for shifting the matrix guides. 3 is a vertical cross section on an enlarged scale of the distributer and the upper end of the magazine. Fig. lis a front elevation looking in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 3, of the upper end of the magazine and the partition plates or guides for directing the matrices thereto, the upper plates being broken away to show the in tern a]. construction.

Referring to the drawings, A represents z stationary, inclined, channeled magazine designed to receive the matrices, B. This magazine consists, as usual, of two parallel plates secured to intermediate spacing pieces and provided on their inner walls or faces with longitudinal grooves or channels, a, the upper ends of which are widened or flared laterally to facilitate the entrance of the matrices descending from the distributer. The matrices are constructed as usual in the Mergenthaler system, of a. general rectangular form, with ears projecting edgewise at their upper and lower ends, and with a V-shaped, toothed notch in the upper end. to cooperate with. the distributer bar.

(l is a horizontal distributor bar, having short longitudinal teeth along its lower, V- shaped edge, to engage and sustain the matrices, the teeth being permuted in arrangement, and the teeth of the matrices correspondingly permuted, so that each matriX held in suspension by the bar is sustained until it arrives above the correspond ing channel in the magazine when for the first time it is released.

I), D are horizontal screws by which the matrices are engaged and carried along the bar after being lifted successively thereto by the ordinary mechanism.

I divide the channels of the magazine into two groups, every second or alternate channel being designed to receive the matrices of one font or set, while the intermediate channels are. designed to receive the matrices of another set or font.

The points at which the matrices are re leased from the distribute]: bar are in munber half as many as the channels in the magazine, so that matrices delivered from any particular point on the distributer bar may be delivered to either of two channels in the magazine. For tlms determining their delivery, I mount between the magazine and distributer the partition plates E, seated upon an underlying plate, F, in such position that the matrices descending from the distributer between the guides E will be sustained and directed by plate F into the upper end of the magazine. The guides E are made of elastic sheet metal, and their upper ends are fixed in position in any suitable manner, for example, by providing them with ears or projections c, secured to y the frame which supports the plate F and to an overlying plate, The lower ends of the guides or partitions E are free to move laterally and are connected by a bar. H, by means of which they may all be moved simultaneously to the right or the left, in order to deliver the matrices falling from the magazine into .one set of alternate channels, as indicated in full lines in Fig. el, or into the set of intermediate channels, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. at.

The details may be varied at will, provided only the lower ends of the plates or guides are movable laterally in relation to the magazine. The partitions may be moved and secured by any suitable means, but I recommend the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in which T represents a rock shaft mounted on the main frame and provided at one end with a crank arm 2', engaging the plate H, and atthe opposite end 'ith a second crank arm, 2 connected by a rod, 2' to a hand lever, i, pivoted on the side of the main frame in convenient reach of the opi erator. This hand lever is provided with a spring actuated latch, 2, adapted to enter notches in a stationary sector plate, By means of this lever the operator may shiftthe matrix guides in series, to direct the matrices to one set of channels or the other and lock them in either of their positions.

It will be observed that the guide plates present smooth, unbroken surfaces from their upper to their lower ends, and that the passages between them are of uniform width from the upper to the lower ends, so that the descending matrices may pass speedily and without hindrance or retardation directly into the upper end of the magazine. This is of importance, because the passages into which the matrices fall are much wider than the matrices, so that there is grave danger of matrices which are delivered in rapid succession overlapping one another and becoming wedged fast in the channels before reaching the magazine unless they are permitted free travel to the latter.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a line casting machine, a distributer, a channeled magazine, intermediate flexible matrix guides fixed at their upper ends and laterally movable at their lower ends, and means connecting said movable ends, whereby the guides may be detlected in series to the right or left to direct the matrices into one series of channels or the other, as de manded.

2. In a line casting machine, a distributer, a channeled magazine and intermediate elastic matrix guides fixed in position at their upper ends and laterally movable at the lower ends, and means for moving said ends to the right or left and securing them in position.

In a line casting machine, a distributer, a channeled magazine, intermediate matrix guides extending continuously from the distributer to the magazine and fixed at their upper ends and manual connections within reach of the keyboard operator for effecting the lateral movement of the lower ends of the guides in series.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my 1h nd this thirtieth day of Dec. 1909, in the presence of two attesting witnesses.

GEORGE DOWNING HARTLEY.

Witnesses A. KUNZ, 'WALTER Norman. 

